EMU Graduate Industrial Engineer Becomes a Manager at Qatar Airways

Published Date: November 6, 2018

Ziya Ediz Gürsan, a graduate of Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) Faculty of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, became the Pricing Manager for Qatar’s national Qatar Airways, based in Doha.

Ziya Ediz Gürsan graduated as an Industrial Engineer in 2006 and after his military service, began his career in 2007 at the Revenue Management Department at SunExpress Airlines, an associated company by German Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines. Receiving a promotion every year, Gürsan became the Revenue Management Manager of SunExpress airlines in 4 short years and continued in this position for another 3. In 2014, he transferred to AtlasGlobal Airlines and was stationed in Tbilisi as the Country Manager of Georgia. After performing successfully for 2 years, Ziya Ediz Gürsan was appointed as the Pricing Manager at AtlasGlobal’s Headquarters in İstanbul. Welcoming a proposal in October, he assumed his new role as the new Pricing Manager for Qatar’s national airline company, Qatar Airways, stationed in the capitol, Doha.

Ziya Ediz Gürsan stated that he did not only receive a high quality education in English during his time at EMU, he also got the opportunity to familiarise himself with foreign cultures. Gürsan thanked EMU for providing its students with such an opportunity.

According to the information from Assist. Prof. Dr. Gökhan İzbırak, EMU Department of Industrial Engineering - Chair, unlike people’s assumptions, Industrial and Operating Engineers are not stationed in factories producing all kinds of products, but also are in the service sector (consultancy, transportation, energy, logistics, finance, banking, hospitals, branding, software, tourism, education, telecommunication, marketing, human resources etc.), construction and extraction (extraction of petroleum, natural gas, mine etc.) firms and they contribute by helping the firms produce more and high quality products/services with lower costs.

Eastern Mediterranean University’s ABET accredited (an accreditation only 4 universities have in Turkey) (abet.org) Department of Industrial Engineering enables its successful students to get Mechanical Engineering or Business Administration diplomas through its double major program. The graduates of the Industrial Engineering and Business Administration departments, producing graduates since 1998, have been positioned at managerial positions at national and international firms active in production, service, construction and extraction sectors. These graduates are accepted into post-graduate programs at world famous universities such as MIT and Cambridge, are able to graduate from those programs with honours and continue their careers as academicians.